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This important documentary by @AhmedKaballo, filmed over weeks on the ground in Venezuela, shows how the US coup attempt failed, and why the elected government of President Maduro remains popular among poor, working-class, and darker skinned Venezuelans
.@AhmedKaballo was one of the only English-language foreign journalists I've seen here in Venezuela.

The vast majority of corporate media outlets report from US client states like Colombia.

His important anti-imperialist reporting was censored by YouTube
Google blocked YouTube and Gmail access to Iranian media outlets PressTV and HispanTV without warning. The channels had built up hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

Google is a US military contractor that often acts as an extension of the US government.
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The US government's colonial unelected Fiscal Oversight and Management Board (also known as la junta) is trying to exploit the ongoing protests in Puerto Rico to further curtail democracy on the island and tighten the colonial noose around its people
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Now that Puerto Rico's Governor Ricardo Rosselló is resigning, Wall Street's Journal is openly calling for a new puppet to replace him who will hand over the country on a silver platter to the US government's colonial control board (la junta)
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Pay close attention: Wall Street's Journal doesn't dislike Ricardo Rosselló because of his disgusting comments; they dislike him because he pushed back against the US gov's colonial control board, and wrote "Dear oversight board, go fuck yourself"

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Told you so: The UK military pays the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) -- which is notorious for producing fake "leftist" imperialists who support regime change around the world -- for “cultural advice” on how to operate in former colonies
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Among the pro-imperialist fake "leftist" academics at @SOAS involved in the British military scheme is Gilbert Achcar, a strong supporter of regime change in Libya & Syria, portraying it as a "revolution"

Achcar gave training to the UK Ministry of Defence
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/left…
Pro-imperialist fake "leftist" academic Gilbert Achcar -- who we now know has voluntarily collaborated with the UK military, giving it training sessions -- is a regular contributor to @JacobinMag, where he portrays NATO regime-change plots as "revolutions"
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Venezuela says the blackout was caused by "an attack of electromagnetic character that sought to affect the hydroelectric system of Guyana, the main provider of service"

It was similar to cyber attacks in March/April, at the height of the US coup attempt aporrea.org/energia/n34484…
As far back as 2010, the US-funded regime-change organization that trained Venezuelan coup leader Juan Guaidó and his allies suggested using blackouts as a "watershed event" for "galvanizing public unrest" thegrayzone.com/2019/03/11/us-…
US government mouthpiece the New York Times recently admitted the US is targeting Russia's electrical grid, and deploying "cybertools more aggressively"

But even to suggest that the US is obviously doing the same against Venezuela is not permitted
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